Sanford C. Goldberg argues in this volume that epistemic normativity-the sort of normativity
implicated in assessments of whether a belief amounts to knowledge-is grounded in the …

It is tempting to think that, if a person's beliefs are coherent, they are also likely to be true.
Indeed, this truth-conduciveness claim is the cornerstone of the popular coherence theory of …

According to Rudner, an adequate account of the conditions of warranted hypothesis
acceptance must include reference to an ethical or, more broadly, a pragmatic factor …

Recently, in attempting to account for explanatory reasoning in probabilistic terms,
Bayesians have proposed several measures of the strength of a potential explanation …

This paper considers an application of work on probabilistic measures of coherence to
inference to the best explanation (IBE). Rather than considering information reported from …

The debate on probabilistic measures of coherence flourishes for about 15 years now.
Initiated by papers that have been published around the turn of the millennium, many …

In the form of inference known as inference to the best explanation there are various ways to
characterise what is meant by the best explanation. This paper considers a number of such …

Recent literature in philosophy of science has addressed purported notions of explanatory
virtues—'explanatory power','unification', and 'coherence'. In each case, a probabilistic …

Formal epistemology explores knowledge and reasoning using “formal” tools, tools from
math and logic. For example, a formal epistemologist might use probability theory to explain …

How good is an explanation and when is one explanation better than another? In this paper,
I address these questions by exploring probabilistic measures of explanatory power in order …